Rally Discussion and Bar Talk Thread

[OldF]

WRC is also World Rally Car.

[OldF]

Nice new feature on Rally-Maps.com, related stages.

https://twitter.com/RallyMaps/status/932325727718035457

[pantealex]

what class are toyota yaris wrc and ford fiesta wrc then if not wrc?

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[AnttiL]

Nice new feature on Rally-Maps.com, related stages.

https://twitter.com/RallyMaps/status/932325727718035457

Was actually my suggestion to add that feature

If anyone else is interested in special stages and rally maps, I recently started a blog about them. Of course, it will have a heavy weigh on Rally Finland but I'm going to cover all the current rallies and analyze their routes before the starts.

My latest entry is about the mighty Ouninpohja https://itgetsfasternow.wordpress.co...1-the-legends/

[Rally Power]

If anyone else is interested in special stages and rally maps, I recently started a blog about them. Of course, it will have a heavy weigh on Rally Finland but I'm going to cover all the current rallies and analyze their routes before the starts.
My latest entry is about the mighty Ouninpohja https://itgetsfasternow.wordpress.co...1-the-legends/

Nice blog AnttiL! Hope to see you writing about Fafe stage one of these days

[AnttiL]

Nice blog AnttiL! Hope to see you writing about Fafe stage one of these days

Thanks! For sure Fafe is one of the iconic stages of WRC. I remember the tarmac junction and the jump all the way back from the 90's as a kid and back then we didn't have youtube or WRC+, we could only see some minutes of a foreign WRC event on TV if we were lucky.

[raybak]

Most of you on here know me as rally codriver but I do a few other things. Here is the trailer to a movie that I did the stunt driving for. Movie is currently on release here in Australia and on the West coast of the USA. https://vimeo.com/241825673

Ray

[raybak]

Here's a longer version of the trailer. https://vimeo.com/235226019

[giu canbera]

Would you be OK if the electric RX cars (planned for 2020) are so good and so adaptable that they could ALSO become WRC's top class? I mean... you'd have to change some suspensions kits and set-ups... But "thats it".
The power would be there already. Manufacturers are kinda interested in the e-RX class (Bmw, Audi, VW, Peugeot...)
I wouldnt mind having WRX teams racing WRC and "vice-versa", since it'd be "the same car" (or something reaaaally close)
I dont know if the current RX/WRC are that compatible to race the other series, but with electric cars it looks pretty simple

Same was said about MotoCross and Supermoto. You change the tires and thats it (Not LITERALLY, I know.. but its way simple to do it, according to Alta Motors and KTM)

I was kinda fearing that WRC would have to revert to R5 cars as its top class cuz of the budgets and this economic crisis on the horizon (kinda like WTCC is doing right now with TCR cars.. that could be raced in EVERY TCR series on the planet) but I would enjoy seeing Electric Cars racing RX and WRC... IDK why but I like the idea.

I even saw someone suggesting they should MERGE and have Stages on Friday and Sunday, with RX on Saturday. That'd be one way to make WRC have "more promo" and WRX to have more respect among traditional racing fans...

Or whatever... Just talking cuz Im bored! Cheers

[Alex009]

Would you be OK if the electric RX cars (planned for 2020) are so good and so adaptable that they could ALSO become WRC's top class? I mean... you'd have to change some suspensions kits and set-ups... But "thats it".

No. Never. It's not motorsport anymore. Electric cars are ridicolous idea and hopefully have nothing to do with WRC.